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    “The men I came here with,” He began, “The ones my family chooses to associate with—they aren’t my friends. And they’re nobody you would want to know. They’re callous and greedy. They aren’t good people. If they see something or someone that belongs to someone who they perceive as their better, they’ll want it. They’ll do anything to take it. They can’t help themselves.”

    His skin was rough, but his touch on the underside of her jaw was velvet. His fingertips were cold. She told herself that that was why she was shuddering.

    “Do you understand?” He asked.

    She didn’t. She was tired and tipsy and confused and frustrated—

    She was starving in a way she never had before, for something that she couldn’t understand.

    “But I don’t belong to you,” She said, uncertain and shaky; a doe on new legs.

    “No,” He said. “You don’t.”

    And she wondered if she imagined it, the way his chin ducked, a nod of appeasement, as if to say: Not yet.

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